A strange thing happened after I updated my IOS on my phone. I could no longer send and receive texts. I didn’t realize this until hubby came home earlier than expected yesterday. He usually texts first before he comes home but I didn’t get one from him yesterday. After much testing and cursing, it took a hard reboot to get be able to text again. Strange.

I have to go on record as really enjoying Cap 1, yeah you could pull apart some of it’s logic, but as a comic book movie I think it stayed true to that style of story telling. My example of a bad superhero movie would be the second Fantastic Four. The edition of Rob and Larry could only have elevated it.

Just for grins, I just went to http://www.healthcare.gov to witness the “horror” that I hear reported on the news, first hand.

The site came right up. I poked around in it with no “glitches”. I tried the quick insurance calculator, where by you give them a zip code and your age and location and they whip out 10 plans to give you some idea of what you might pay. As near as I can tell it worked flawlessly.

So I hit the “register” button. That took a little while to open up but really not even quite as long as it takes Netflix to load on my TiVo.

That’s as far as I went as I already have insurance and didn’t want to accidentally buy more.

Maybe the problem is deeper into the process but if there was a problem, I did not see it.

The “Quick quote” I used did only have two brackets (49 and below, 50 and above) but it clearly stated that this was just to give you a very ball park idea of what you might be looking at. So I can’t see that as “broken”. After all, those two brackets do cover everyone.

Have to admit that after all the bad press and John Stewert just wailing on it for days now … I was really expecting to see the Hindenburg when I went to the site. At the least thought I’d get an error page. Boring.

Heard an interesting story on this that indicated women had closed the employment gap (in the US) but not the pay gap. Seems this is becoming a new cost cutting tactic. Instead of raising women’s pay to equal male counterparts … companies were hiring more women instead of men specifically because they could get away with paying them less.
So … everybody wins!
(disclaimer: In this scenario the subset “everybody”, only includes stockholders and board members.)

A motorway walks into a pub. He goes up to the bar and orders himself a drink. He has just sat down when in walks a strip of tarmac. The motorway sees the tarmac, starts to panic and jumps behind the bar. “What are you afraid of?” says the barman, “You’re a six lane motorway and he’s just a piece of tarmac.” The motorway replies, “You don’t know him like I do. He’s a cyclepath.”

If you are painting cloth to look like stone, would you start with the darkest shade as your base coat and then add the lighter shades to create hi/lo lites … or would you do it the other way around – start light and add shadow?

Be careful what you buy online. Check the seller out very carefully.
I’ve just spent £230 on a penis enlarger, and the bastard’s sent me a magnifying glass!!!! The only instruction that came with it was do not use in sunlight…..

I ended up canceling my Xbox One preorder. Between the PC (world of tanks is their current favorite) and the iPads, they haven’t touched the Xbox we have now in months. Looking at the games coming out, while pretty, don’t compel me. Especially since so many of them look like they are being developed and released for the current Xbox/Playstation hardware.

My daughter is glued to her iPad and my son plays on the PC almost exclusively. He is still pestering me about the XBOX One, but like Ed I don’t see any big moves forward this year in terms of new games. The PS4 looks interesting, but I don’t know. The money might be better spent upgrading the PC’s.

While I dig it in a Spherical Tomi kind of way – in the real world, I can see douchebag day traders wandering along the sidewalk waving and polking and annoying everyone around them poking at buttons in the air that no one else can see.

No, it’s a commercially run thing with an admission price. They’ve taken over a shuttered big box location and filled the place with a bunch of different set pieces, with the wreckage of a small plane, old cars, cathedral sets, impossible rooms, etc., with professionally costumed ghouls and creepies lurking everywhere. Fun, but probably a bit too scary for younguns.

If 28 million house cats are killing a small rodent or bird twice a week and these creatures don’t seem to be in any danger of extinction … would we be be overrun with vermin were it not for these cats?

Nope. I also got no proof of exactly what species are being killed.
I merely paused to think of the extra 2.9 billion (based on the mentioned number/frequency of cat kills) birds and or small mammals a year that would be breeding and competing for food supplies.
2.9 billion(+). A year.
Dead … or alive and multiplying. Either way that seems a “made for SciFi Channel” large number of critters.

And I got a reply from the man himself on Twitter. “Wil SCREAMton ‏@wilw
@Rhettro ahahahahah! Well done. I didn’t see the game because I was at a concert. Sounds like I didn’t miss anything I wanted to see.”